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Welcome to the Daily Stoke Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient

wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some

of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoke.com.

You own nothing. As we work and achieve, we pile up titles and money. We accumulate assets

and influence. We build a life, as they say. And a life is made up of things. Our job,

our house, our car, our relationships, our reputation. Looking around at what we possess,

what we've poured so much sweat and blood into is an immensely rewarding experience.

As Margaret Atwood writes in a beautiful poem, the moment when, after many years of hard work

and a long voyage, you stand in the center of your room, your house, a half acre, square

mile, island country, knowing at last how you got there and say, I own this. But the

Stoke knows that we never really own anything. All we possess in this life, Mark, really

says, even life itself is really only hours in trust. We are renters. Our lives are here

on loan. Loans that can get called in at any time can be fired. Someone can dislodge

our seemingly dominant market position. A loved one can leave. People die. And that's

why Margaret Atwood warns against the pride and satisfaction of surveying one's possessions.

The moment you do that, she says, nature rebels. Almost out of spite, it feels the need to

rebuke you for your pride. No, they whisper. You own nothing. You were a visitor time after

time climbing the hill, planting the flag proclaiming, we never belonged to you. You never found

us. It was always the other way around. None of us own anything. Everything is constantly

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